The cost of adapting to climate change in developing countries could rise to between US$280 and US$500 billion per year by 2050 (UNEP, 2016).
Moreover, adaptation costs are likely to increase, even if the world succeeds in limitin...

A variety of stakeholders in developing countries have greatly contributed to mainstreaming adaptation into national development strategies/ plans in different ways (national adaptation planning (NAP) process) as well as implement...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 132, June 2015:
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of the 'Risk of Heat Waves and Climate Change in India'. This issue tries to highlight the phenomena of heat waves from the...

Disasters affect lives and infrastructure. Because of disasters, infrastructures built over the years often do not fully fulfill their intended services. Affected countries oftentimes have to restart their development by diverting...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 124 – January 2015
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of Successful Community Based Adaptation in India. It tries to highlight how low-cost, democratic and need based adaptat...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 123 - January 2015
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the important theme of Climate Compatible Development in India. As an emerging humanitarian ideal, climate compatible developmen...

The work on climate change vulnerability assessments was realised under the Indo-German cooperation project Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India (CCA RAI) which is jointly implemented by the Ministry of Environment, F...

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 119, October 2014:
This issue focuses on the development of a successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), which was the seminal framework that guided the global response to the challenges o...

Sanitation facilities in India are alarmingly poor with over 600 million people (half of India's population) having no access to toilets and open defecation practiced instead. This poses health hazards, raises environmental concer...

RECOFTC-The Center for People and Forests, in collaboration with the Association of South‐East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Social Forestry Network (ASFN), will undertake this training with an aim to apply a holistic approach toward clim...